CLIMBING THE RUNGS OF THE QUALITY LADDER: FDI AND DOMESTIC EXPORTERS IN ROMANIA

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Bajgar, Matej; Javorcik, Beata
• 署名单位: Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD); Czech Academy of Sciences; Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences; Charles University Prague; University of Oxford; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1093/ej/ueaa003
• 发表日期: 2020
• 页码: 937-955
• 关键词: FOREIGN DIRECT-INVESTMENT; trade liberalization; vertical spillovers; product quality; FIRMS; multinationals; prices; matter; WORLD

摘要

This article argues that inflows of foreign direct investment can facilitate export upgrading in host countries. Using customs data merged with firm-level information for 2005-11, it shows a positive relationship between the quality of products exported by Romanian firms and the presence of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in the upstream (input-supplying) industries. Export quality is also positively related to MNE presence in the downstream (input-sourcing) industries and the same industry, but these relationships are less robust. These conclusions hold both when the product quality is proxied with unit values and when it is estimated following the approach of Khandelwal et al. (2013).